Research Procedures RESEARCH METHODS

3.6 Research Procedures

This classroom action research was conducted in the form of cycle. They were planning of the action, implementing of the action, observation and evaluation, and reflection. The were explained as follows. 3.6.1 The Planning of the Action The researcher and the English teacher of this class need to design the activities well before conducting the action. They were about conducting the preliminary study to collect the information about students` problem in listening, preparing the materials that could be used, constructing the lesson plans collaboratively with the English teacher, constructing the observation checklist based on the indicators being observed in the process of teaching listening and constructing the listening test for cycle 1 and cycle 2. 3.6.2 The Implementation of the Action The implementation of the action in this research was teaching listening comprehension by using cartoon video based on the schedule from the school. There were two meetings of teaching learning process in each cycle and then the test of listening comprehension was administered in the third meeting. The English teacher becomes the observer and the researcher becomes the English teacher. In cycle 1 there are three meetings. Two first meetings are based on Lesson Plan 1 and Lesson Plan 2. One video was used the first meeting, another one was for the second meeting and the last one is for the listening test. 3.6.3 Observation and Evaluation of the Action a. Observation Observation was used to observe the activity of the students`activity during the teaching learning process of listening by using video. Observation checklist was used to observe the students’ active participation during the teaching learning process of listening by using video based on the indicators provided. b. Evaluation Evaluation was important to know the improvement of the students’ active participation and listening comprehension achievement. The action was categoriezed as successfull if 75 of the students can achieve score 75 as the minimum standard score of SMP N 7 Jember and their mean score was at least 57.3. Moreover, the action was considered successful if 75 of the students in VIII C class are actively participated during the teaching learning process of listening by using cartoon video. 3.6.4 Data Analysis Method and Reflection of the Action

a. Analyzing the data becomes an important thing in this research. To